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A NOVEL RAILWAY.

A curious railway, which furnishes its own
motive power carries iron ore from the Ria Mines,
in the Pyrenees, to a distance of nearly seven
miles, It is built on the Lartigne single rail sys-
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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-08-20

shoulder fore she had her big tusks IN
his blanket n begun champin' her
teeth in it n tearin' away at it like one
possessed. You never saw a more sur
prised Teller in all your
born days. He jest Civ a
big grunt N sed, Ugh, big dev-
ii! n ,~ied to roll over out o. her way.
But she he'd hold O. the blanket, n
kind O. pulled the other way, N that
made it tighter round him n the pig,
too, n the pig squealed louder n ever,
n tn old sow jist hactully got frantic
after him. He got half way up when
she made another charge on him n al
most upset him, N, bein' he werz on
the edge ov little bank, he jest tum-
bled plum over backwards, N KEEP roll
IN on down till he landed kerswash
INTO deep hole in the little creek be-
low His head went down first,
n heels stuck up straight in tn air. By
that time he'dletloose o tn pig, n tibet
stopped squealin' N run up tn bank to
Its mother. She stopped when she see
1t w safe, n stood there a snortin' n
a gruntin' n champin' her teeth for
mint after she trotted back after
acorns N tn other pigs. Abe N med
been so excited over it all It we'd for.
got t keep hid, n by tn time tn Injun
got right side up n stood up in tn
water n looked after tn sow we wuz
standin' there in plain sight. It'd all
happened so blamed quick It he didn't
seem t understan' it at first, n looked
SO comical tive both laughed out loud.
That kinder seemed t bring him to his
senses n he wuz the most embarrassed
lnJun you ever saw. He waded out, n
ez we seen he had no gun we didn't
feel much afraid, n so we waited for
him. He come up to us n finally
managed t. make us know It hf
thought it wuz only a new breed O.
possum, ez l sed, N we got right
sociable fore long, N took him home
n let him stand afore the fire n dry of
n give him somethin' t eat. He come
round often after that, but he never
went near tn pig-pen or tn old sow. "
why, grandpa" said Polly, don't
Indians have pigs?"
mot one, Polly; not one-'xcept
themselves. They're pigs, least l used
t think so after I got right well
acquainted with EN-" - Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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Her Only Weakness.

81 do think that Clawa Mahtin is IN
awfully nice girl, and l shall always
continue to do so, but there is one
weakness she has that can not ovah-
look in her"
"What is that, Clawancep"
at is her excessive fondness for that
vewy vulgah chewn, Home, Sweet
Home Why, she plays it on how.
wild piano envy time go TO see her,
and without evan being awsked."
at is twuly remarkable. And
they went down street together trying
to account for her peculiar fascina,
ton for the melody.-Merchant Trao,
eler.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-08-20
THE ELECTRIC EEL.
A Fish that Has a Great Career of Useful.
ness Before Itself

A Fish that Has a Great Career of Useful.
ness Before Itself
A South American gentleman whose
name we have not the space to print,
thinks he has found way to make
every man his own electrician. The
scheme is nothing more-or less-than
bottled cells. 1t is we'll known that in
the South American rivers the electric
eel is an established institution. The
electric eel has had a great deal of fun
up to date and has done precious little
OF useful nature. Scientists have
given the electric eel very wide berth
until they had coroner's inquest that
the animal was particularly dead. If
you pick up an electric eel by the tail
you are apt to regret your misplaced
familiarity with it for some time to
come. The examination of very dead
eels has shown cautious scientists that
each eel is provided with two positive
and two negative electric cells each
one-thirteenth of an inch in diameter,
and besides these there are innumerable
smaller electric c< lis. 1t will therefore
not surprise the non. scientific reader to
know that the eel spends its Joyous life
in perpetrating numerous positive cleo
trio cells on all who come within range
of it. Nothing so delights an eel as to
have an alligator swallow it. The mo-
ment the eel gets comfortably inside it
turns on its battery of about thou
sand horsepower on the sensitive in
nards of the astonished gator, who has
never taken electrical treatment be-
fore. If it is small eel the alligator
Tanks it is some new and awful kind of
indigestion; if it is big eel the gator
floats to the surface and dies of frozen
horror 1t can stand a good deal but
not big eel. When the small boy is
sitting on a South American wharf fish
ing for bass the eel likes to get on the
hook and send telegraphic message up
the line to the boy. The boy springs
into the air as if he had sat down on
ten thousand needles and the eel gets
away with the fishing line and pole.
The South American gentleman with
the long name thinks the cells have had
amusement enough with the people of
his country. He has succeeded in bot
Ting up enough eels to run small
electric light plant Thirty cells of
two cells each give one thousand volts
of electricity. Just exactly how much
volt is no one but an electrician
knows. 1t may be barrelful or it may
be pound, but anyhow one thousand
volts will kill three men in the most
satisfactory manner.
These cells can be raised in tank
with water kept at the requisite heat.
The South American with fifty jars OF
cells manages to light his large mansion
at Achaguas, Venezuela.
BY and by perhaps every householder
will have his own tank of cells and be
thus independent of both the electric
light companies and the gas compa.
MES. There is evidently great career
of usefulness ahead of the electric eel
| Detroit Free Press.
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SHE TOLD ME.
She told me not to love her,

She told me not to love her,
And didn't any more;
But held the shade above her
AS we walked upon the Shore
And then hogan TO love her
Precisely as before.
She told me not to meet her
At moonlight on the sand;
But nothing could be sweeter
Than even that command.
And so 1 dared to meet her
And take her by the hand.
She told me, too, that dancinh
She greatly did abhor;
But soon we two were prancing,
The rulers of the floor,
And then wished that dancing
Would last forevermore.
She told me that she hated
My mean persistency,
And so calmly waited,
But scarcely left her free,
Noping the man she hated
might not chance to be.
She told me to avoid her,
An order should heed;
But /, who had enjoyed her
Sweet presence, felt its need,
And SO did avoid her
Her absence, yes, indeed.
She told me that TO marry
Was quite against her plan;
But schemes like that miscarry,
AS many another can;
So now she means to marry,
And l am 10 be the man.
" ?. Sun.
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The Old Pioneer is bothered Almost
nightly by his great-grandchildren for
stories of his boyhood days and the
ways of the people who lived in the
backwoOds of Ohio. The desires of the
boys ran mostly to "reminiscences of
bears and Indians, tales of war and the
chase. That of Polly inclines more to
storie of the pioneers themselves, and
Polly being the old mans favorite,
certainly the most imperative of his
audience, generally has her way about
such things. But the other night her
brothers, one older and the other
younger than Polly, declared so vehe-
hemently that they had a right to
choose subject that even Polly,
though, as usual, curled up in the old
mans lap, graciously waived what she
considered her vested rights, she add
mitted for once she should not object
to- story about bear
"But think if you can't remember
some thing about little bear, Grandpa
"a baby bear-that wouldn't eat up
children like the bears in the Bible
that ate up the children tina old 'Lisha
to git up, old Baldhead?' y
Tie old man laughed lih \, to him
self as he said: "Well, Poll, I'm not
so mighty sure eff the bars we had them
days was the kind old 'Lisha he'd fol-
lerin' him. Don't blievc they'd eat
children. Hold on, though; come to
think, they ulster eat up lamb now N
then, n they liked nice, fat little pig
most too we'll"
Polly shuddered and drew up her
feet until she made herself into little
round ball, with her fluffy yellow hair
as a top-knot, and her blue eyes
rounder and brighter than ever
81 he'd a bar myself, once" con-
tinued he; "a little Teller. Father N
my big brothers brought him home
from a big hunt they took one time,
after they'd killed the old mother N
the other cub. He wuz bout as big ez
a big puppy, N looked lots like one,
jest ez fat S butter, 18th nice, black,
shaggy hide N tn funniest face you
ever saw. He wuz ez cute 5 a kitten
N bout ez mischievous, soon S got so
he knOwed our ways, He'd git into
more mischief than all the family could
keep him out NV, n # pc hadn't been so
blamed comical he'd a gone into tn
meat-barrel ez fresh meat long afore
he did. Mother d say dozen times a
week tibet she'd enough ter do 'thout
watchin' bar, n t wouldn't be more
IN an hour afore she d be laughin' at N
pettin' him like tn rest NV us. He'd
watch, N if ever she'd leave tn milk
house SOS he could git tn door open
he'd pry roun' till he'd git in, n then
he go for tn butter, N lap up whole
crock o. milk fore you could say Jack
Robinson. N if she'd come after him
n slap him over, he'd turn a summer
set n come up right side foremost N
paddle after her, cryin' like a child
till she'd stop n pet him n he'd seem
TO think it wuz all right n go off t
find somethin' else ter do. Then he'd
go down by tn pond n watch tn
young ducks n geese till he'd catch
one, N he'd paw it over n over n
play with it till tn old mother'd lest
raise tn biggest kind o rumpus n fly
at i'm in fury. That wuz fun, n
he'd never mind it till some one @
us'd come down n make him quit n
then he'd tTot off t find somethin'
olsa Rv tha uaVi st,p,p,ar prvno "a,
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--''Do you think" asked a college
student of professor, "that the lion
and the lamb have ever lain down to-
gether?n Il don't know" answered
the professor, "but if they have, l have
no doubt the lamb was missing from
that date, "-NeI0 Haves Register.
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Unnecessary Fears.

Employer Ito new clerk)-Didn't l
see you coming out of billiard-saloon
last nightP"
New Clerk (frightened) -Ye-yes, sir,
Employer-You play billiards, thenp
New Clerk-Ye-yes, sir.
Employer-Well, after we close up
TIL 60 around and play you a game for
the drinks. I'm something of player
myself. N !. San.
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THE OLD PIONEER.
He Entertains the Children With
Stories Of His Boyhood Days.

A Pet Bear and His Funny Ways-The
Boys and the Panther-HOw an Indian
Was Whipped by an Old Sow.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-12-10

Hon. Thomas c. Walston, of North
amWon, died in Richmond last Tuesday
oi blood poisoning, due tn III abress
which had formed Oh a defective tooth
and the failure to get out the root, Hllen
IN effort was made to extract it some
DAYS ago. The deceased was born at
Acconac & H, and lived here until he
lad completed his law studies when he
removed o Northanpt where lie has
Stree resided and commenced the plac
tice of law. AS lawyer he took high
rank in his profession ut the beginning
and to che day of his death enjoyed the
confidence of the people, receiving at
their llanGs u large and lucrative prac-
tice. lie was member Of the Senate
O. Virgil fol four years and was I'll. =
inently spoken OF as "a candidate fol
Congress. AS citizen lie was sincere
" esteemed 10y all who knew him and
all feel that his death is Il great loss to
the Eastern Shore. He leaves wife
and one child. His remains were i'll
TERED at his home Lear Nashville last
Thursday.
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WyaGf---Mapp.


A large audience was gathered at the
Presbyterian Oh rcll, Belle Haven, last
Wednesday night, to witness the mar
riage of Mr.. l.. III. Wyatt, popular and
prosperous merchantof Belle Hayen to
Miss Sallie Mapp. the charming daughter
of Mr.. VIM, J. Mapp. The edIice WIS
filed to OVERLOOKING. For an hour or
more before the arrival of the bridal par
ty all available space III the hnilding WIS
occupied by the numerous friends Ut The
bri,lc aud groom. AS the organist. Miss
Mary Rosser, struck mp the we'll known
Mendelssohn Wedding March, the
bridesmaids and grnomsm entered the
church as follows:
Miss Bessie Mapp and e. L. Willis,
Miss Lila Rogers,of BALTIMORE, and Dr..
S. Blair Ward, Miss ] elm llalhy ind
John w. lIcnl"snn Miss Elite Ro-
berts aid Join W E:nOn Is, Miss Lin
uie NJ. Mapp AMI Dr. ,Joln W. Hys!np,
Miss Mary y. Mapp and DR.. l. J. HAr-
malsou. Miss Annie Thomas and John
Il. Floyd. .Jr.. Miss Mamie A. Affair and
j. IL. Nicholson. of Philadelphia, Miss
Sally Jacobs and Will Denlis, Miss Hal
lie Downing and DR.. e. Fred Floyd.
TAt.y protested up tie right aisle AMI
forming IL semi circlt. awaited the
bride who's soon approached the altar OH
the arm of Capt. y A. Browne, by
whom she was pivrn aw ami WIS met
there bv The groom. The ceremony was
performed by Rev. r. u. Stim uIl III a
very beautiful and impressive manner.
a handsompr couple rarely presented
themselves for the marital vows was the
universal comment MtSs;S. w. W.
Brickhouse and S. P. Ward acted rs
ushers on the occasion. Alter the cere.
mony was completed the attend:h'ts Ut
tile bride and groom and a few o:ler
friends wee elegantly entertained at
Downingville.t the residence OF MI. VIM.
j. Mapp. The bridal llese is were
and valuable.
Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-12-10

Mr.. George Spra,ne. fireman on the
N. y. 7. Il Il. r., wastkilled one day
last week. wjnlpworE 'ng in the shifting
ward of tho p. IS r. r.. R., by attempt
ing to get M tie shifter il, it MAS going
by! i'm. Fl slipped and Tell aiiut.,e ell
gine pissed over his bod
The mayor of Cape Charles called q
special meeting of the CITY council last
Tuesday for The purpose Of taking into
consideration tlrHlvisalili'y ct raising
an cQu.rping military company for tie
protection of tile reOp''. vi the place. Ii
was Decided tn organic Il company AZ
once. and application viii be ihia'e I.
he State allhurllis for sufficient
number of AIMS. ] lie cornell are de-
terIniued to spare ltither money nor
means TO crush nnt all such llwicsSEeSS
It's las occurred: at times fol- Cle lf.el
few months. IL has been not Only Il
source of great annoyance, hut has
caused the citizens much uncaslneSs, ais
they feel That life or property are great
IL endangered. The council also Offer
eda reward for tie arrest and cohVic
lion Of the PARTY WHO so seriously III
juit' uGl"ty SCI s'" t.s e. nara .lsn f.,
rin.s i..sliI ,.s'o' ~; $50 n'n,,r,,,v and =
hsa. w .isa''aM, .. ,n1 I ~, ,.,ri.ct ar
ooui.nI..se tpp0..,',u =; SOL ,,J invrs.
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prlus: "a suosci ip.lG,, i' ',,r ,.n. i le
oeeil Slafteu u ''s''SS III p'''o''''''''s VIZ
apparatus.
f,toI offro, oconrrci1 here ON Frl1ay
n;aht of lsst , wce~ w,,;ci, resulted in the
.hoot;n y, 10 ~ ,ma n;o,. Wilson tcolore,l i'm
tho ,h1son,a M WIZ . has since died of